Did he ever get that drink?
:( ...poor guy. I enjoyed it except for the annoying and high pitched sword sounds, the bad up close characters. Also snow is a pretty lame guy. "I've trained this long for the sword, but you beat me in a duel. So instead of letting you have the sword to kill yourself with it, I'm going to join you on your quest." Whaaa? If I was snow and I gave a damn about the sword, I would backstab him the first chance I got, take the swords, and be done with it.
In other words, he's a very flat character. It's okay for a kid like Korah to be flat and naive character because he's a boy and he's the main character which allows the story to be explained when he learns about it, but not Snow. Snow needs to get in touch with reality, his struggle, his morals, his character, and his surroundings pretty damn quick or this series will die. Make his past apparent in his day to day life (without drawn out flashbacks and memories that drown the drive of a plot).